If you discovered the name you like means something grim...

[LaTristesse]

...would you still use it?

Thank you ladies, just the reassurance I needed! Now just to get it past DH!

I'm a laid back hippy pacifist. My dd's name means 'mighty in battle'. She is built rather like a tank tbh but I like to think that while she's mighty and yes, a battler, it's not in a clonk another child over the head with a toy car type way. She's a remarkably assertive and forthright child.

I LOVE Soren btw.

my dd1 is Claudia (nearly 11yo) she loves her name & is v. interested in its history (Emperor Claudius & his disabilities) - I don't think that lame is an unfortunate meaning though!

soren lorenson is lola's invisible friend...

When choosing DC4's name I found one place said it meant "big of hand" Not both hands, mind, just one huge one. Still went for it

I've got a 'ruler of the home'-tick.[female]
A 'dyer/Good with hands'-tick.[male]
A 'happy' little soul.-tick.[female]
Anyone care to guess?!

Laetitia

Dexi I'd guess Harriet, Dexter and Felicity

Yo!!! Prize to insanity!!!! Altho' it's Hattie!!! I like this game anyone else?

Nice names Dixie, ds 2's nickname is Dexter (boy genius )
Mine are
ds 1 of the red earth
ds 2 son of
dd 1 horse? fame flower
ds 3 God is gracious
dd 2 light

Soren was the name of my much adored grandfather and we almost gave it to dh. It is a very traditional name in Denmark I knowseveral (I have a cousin and a friend with a son called it)

ds didnt feel like a Soren so we used the femine version "Sorine" for middle name for dd3 I am actually a bit sad we didnt give it to her for her first name as I so adore it.

If it helps every single Soren I have known have been gentle wonderful completely loveable men/boys..

I would 100% do it

I'd only avoid a name if it actually sounded like something unpleasant. But in that case it wouldn't be a discovery and I wouldn't have liked it in the first place.

What GrimmaTheGnome said.

My own name means Golden Princess in my native language.
Unfortunately in another language it means foreskin.
What can you do?

Lol chipmonkey!

I love the name Claudia and the meaning won't put me off if I get a girl.

I know what your name is chipmonkey! Won't say in case you don't want to be outed!

Doreen means 'sullen'.

Due for a revival?

No, best not out me here SecondTime although I do have a lot of MNers on my FB account who know my name!

Well, then let's just say I have someone close to me who shares your name!

Insanity-Do you have an Adam and a Ben? I'm so sorry there were so many beautiful names for your other clues!

ohhhhh Soren is a fab name!!!

ds3 was very, very nearly called Soren (if you search you can probably still find threads by me on here agonising over his name) after Kierkegaard!

as it happens i may also be considered by some to be a laid-back hippy pacifist

my children's names mean:

ds1- flax
ds2- man of god
ds3- healer